Pocket-case for bottles



(No Model.)

vJ. BARNES..

4 POC-KET CASE FOR BOTTLES. No. 474,940. Patented May 17, 1892.

Il lllll l. INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA BARNES, OF GREEN LAVN, NEW YORK.

POCKET-CASE FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,940, dated May 17,1892.

Application filed June 8,1891. Serial No. 395.440. (No model.) i

To all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that l, JOSHUA BARNES, acitizen of the United States, and aresident of Green Lawn, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Cases for Bottles,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pocket cases` for bottles containing acushioning-spring for securing the bottle with a yielding pressure forprotection against breakage and is designed more particularly forbottles having an elastic flange closing over the top of the bottle andfor ink, nursing, and other bottles with which it is desirable to use astopperhaving an elastic bulb, all as hereinafter fully described,reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l isa sectional elevation of my improved bottle-case and side elevation of abottle therein having the stopper provided with an elastic flange and aliquid-dropper, the presser being in the bottom of the case to press thestopper against the interior of the cover. Fig.2 is a similar View ofthe case and bottle with the presser arranged in the upper part of thecase.

The case, madel of wood, hard rubber, paper-stock, or other approvedmaterial, consists of Atwo hollow sections, as ct b, closed at one endand open at the other, with a screw-joint for fastening them together atthe open end, said joint consisting of the external threaded portion CZof one screwing into the internallythreaded part c of the other anddrawing the two tight on the shoulders e. In the bottom of part a, Fig.l, or part b, Fig. 2, is a coiled spring f, on which the bottle rests,or which presses against the stopper so as to press the stopper into thebottle and keepit tight when the cover is screwed home on the part a andconfine the bottle between the elastic presser and one end of thechamber, so as to avoid any slack space, and at the same time to preventcrushing the bottle, as if confined between rigid or positive bearings,the chamber in the case being sufficiently longer than the bottle andits stopper that the bottle will be subject to the pressure of thespring only.

The stopper has an elastic fiauge h, and the cover is counterboredandfitted so that the shoulder i or the springf when placed in the coverbears on said ange. For liquid droppers or ejectors or nursing-bottleshaving a collapsible bulb, as C, extending upward from the shoulder h,the cover will be more deeply counterbored to provide space for thefeXible bulb, and when the spring is placed in the cover the bore willbe larger for the spring to surround the bulb, and the shoulder will beomitted. Any other stopper may have a flexible flange or collar to bethus pressed on the top of the bottle by the said shoulder or spring,said iieXible flange or collar serving as another means of keeping thebottle tight in addition to the part of the stopper entering the neck ofthe bottle.

It will be seen that my invention is especially useful in the case ofbottles having a liquid dropping or ejecting pipettejand flexible bulb gor a syringe, which it is desirable to caryin the pocket for variouspurposes. The screw-joint connecting the two parts of the case enablesthe stopper to be pressed tight in case it is left slack by drawing thetwo parts against the bo'ttle when screwing them together.

The case and spring-presser will constitute an article of manufacture byitself to be supplied to the manufacturers and bottlers of the variousliquids for which the cases may be required, and will be especially'useful for transmitting bottles safely by mail.

I claiml. A pocket-case for bottles having an elastic flange of thestopper adapted to bear on the top of the bottle, the said caseconsisting of the two chambered parts a b, having the screwfjoint conuectingthe open ends, and one of said parts having the counterborcdchamber surrounding the head of the stopper and, containing the bearingresting on the elastic shoulder or flange of the stopper, substantiallyas described.

2. The combination of the pocket-case con- -sisting of the two chamberedparts, one of which has the counterbore and the shoulder at the bottomthereof, and said parts connected by the screw-joint, the elasticpresser secured in the chamber of one of the parts,

and a stoppered bottle having the elastic my invention I have signed; myname,in presflange of the stopper adapted to be' pressed ence of twoWitnesses, this 21st day of J anu- 1o on the top of the bottle and saidbottle inary, 1891.

serted in said case and subject to pressure on T 5 the bottom and on theelastic shoulder of the JOSHUA BABA ES' stopper by the said parts of theease, substan- Witnesses: tially as described. W. J. MORGAN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as A. P. THAYER.

